Author: antonyio06

Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin In The Sun” truly deserves all the recognition it has gotten over the years since it’s release. Hansberry truly grasps the hardships for black families living in lesser wealthy neighborhood and the struggles for financial stability. When money is mixed in with a family who all separately need it for seperate reasons, the risen stakes make for even better development. It allows us as the audience to fully experience the characters relationships towards one another before and after the stakes increase. Raising the question, could family bonds truly stand the test of time, or the test of money? Everything, from the casual starting beginning to the conflicting ends, kept me glues to the pages making it hard to stop myself from finishing but when I approached the finish it became hard to allow myself to. I recommend this classic to all readers/theatre lovers especially those of color due to the fact that this is our perspective, our life, and our story.

I promise you it wasn’t what you think. I love you, and you  know I love you! Since the day I laid eyes on you I vowed to always do right by you and swear I have done nothing but stay true to that vow because….I fell in love with you. Baby, I’m in love with you! You’re the kind of love that never waivers. the kind of love that never fails. The kind of love that makes me want to be better everyday.  I know we’ve been rough these past few months have been rough but I wouldn’t do that to you. I would never do that to you….but what reason do you have to believe me? I’m just the screw up who couldn’t accomplish anything because I hurt those I love. Everyone else gave up on me but you…or have you too? I can’t handle you giving up on me too. You’re the only reason I keep going, the reason I breathe, the reason I haven’t given up on myself. So you think I would risk my everything for some chick at a bar?! Baby, I would rather have everything I need from the ONLY person I love than to satisfy an urge with someone who I know wouldn’t be laying beside me when I wake up. I regret ever even leaving the house last night. Instead of laying next to you i decided to leave just to experience a feeling even I don’t understand. I was scared baby, I scared of myself and I what I would’ve done if I didn’t remember what I would be coming home to. I don’t deserve you, I realized that the moment I met that chick. I asked myself, “Jermaine…”, “Jermaine, what are you doing?! You have a good woman waiting for you at home, she expects you home. She’s a good woman. A special woman. A rare woman and If you mess this up, you’ll never forgive yourself. Of course yah mama would never let you forget.” You know what my mamma said when she met you, that day I introduced you? She said “My Jermaine finally done something right” she said “Finally”…. Do you hate me? Because I’m not a man who would just admit he cheated on you and leave? Instead I’m a man who almost made a mistake and I’m asking for your forgiveness? You know what, I know I don’t deserve you but I don’t think you deserve me either! I’m a good man who chose you over another and always second guesses if I ever try the opposite. So you know what I’ll leave, at least I can leave with my pride. At least I know I’m not the stubborn woman who purposely let a good man go….(Leaves)